Below is a TENTATIVE Daily Calendar. Topics may change depending upon class needs and interests. As with all this wiki's pages, I keep adding resources to this site so check it often to see if something has been updated!
Spring 2013
January 29/31
Welcome to spring semester! I will be attending a conference on January 29 so you will complete a variety of out-of-class assignments. If you are in the Tue/Thur class, I will be back on the 31st. See you then.
Tue/Thur 3-4:30 Group (Elementary Language Arts Learning Community) Tue 6-9 pm Group (Early Childhood)
Read and consider your position as an adopter or disruptor -- From the Principal's Office: Adopting a Digital Disruptor Mindset to Transform Education -- “When people adopt technology, they do old things in new ways. When people internalize technology, they find new things to do.” James McQuivey, Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
Review the remainder of this page, the Syllabus page (look at navigation on left), and the list of pages under Syllabus. Think about what you will be expected to demonstrate in this course. Be sure to think carefully about the Above and Beyond clause under evaluation. You are working for an A aren't you??? Is there too much to do? Probably! But, practice makes perfect and will provide you with a mental model of how technology is frequently working today. We will be exploring a wide variety of different tools that you may elect to use in your classroom. We will also be generating a large number of technology rich activities and supporting samples. Together these ideas are intended to unleash your creativity so that your classroom will meet your students' needs. Keep up with the daily schedule and you will be fine. Focus on developing plans and samples around one or two themes and that will reduce your stress. Develop plans and samples to mesh with your other courses and that will help reduce complexity, work and time commitments. You may work with one or more partners but the samples created must be done by you. Show your creativity!! Spreadsheet with assignments listed.
Review the ISTE Technology Standards. Note there are standards for students as well as teachers. You, as a teacher, will be expected to demonstrate the teacher standards. You will then plan instruction so your students can demonstrate the student standards. Check out the NETS•S Profiles (PDF) to obtain a picture of what might be appropriate technology-wise for students at various age ranges. You might want to download and print a copy of these standards and profiles to keep with you for quick reference. You may also want to download the Common Core Standards or other content standards to which you will be planning instruction. All plans you write must identify which technology and content standards are addressed.
iPads and Mobile Devices and Interactive Whiteboards are two of the hottest tool categories in today's classrooms. You are most likely carrying a mobile devise in your pocket (your smart phone). You may also have an iPad or tablet or a Google Chromebook or other devise with you or you may have one or more at home or in a classroom where you work. This is great! I am going to encourage you to use them this semester. The same goes for Interactive Whiteboards (SmartBoards). Unfortunately our classroom has none of this equipment :( So, you are going to have to push yourself to gain familiarity with them. To practice using a SmartBoard, go to Polk Library and reserve/use the SmartBoard room on the 3rd floor. It's there just for you!!! Check out the key at the circulation desk. To access an iPad talk to me, we have some in the college. I can check them out for a class period. Or, better yet, gain access to one that you can use over several days. You won't want to go to student teaching or a job interview without familiarity with these tools. It's up to you here... create instructional plans that incorporate their use.
Write me an email telling me your estimation of your technology skill level. Talk about how you use technology in your life now as well as how you see it being used in your classroom by both you as a teacher as well as your students.Talk about what you already know how to do and what you need to learn. Use information from items 2-7 above to shape your discussion. Help me get to know you and your needs. Include a bit about yourself too so I can start to know you as an individual. Save this work also in a Google document on your Google Drive. Share the document with me as a link (set permissions so I can access the document) but also make sure the text is pasted into the body of your email. My email address is cramer@uwosh.edu(Tue 3-4:30 group submit by Wed, January 30, at 9 am; Tue 6-9 group submit by Friday, February 1, at 9 am)
LifeGraphs -- Follow handout to create a lifegraph. Include a minimum of 5 important events in your life as they relate to language arts and/or teaching. Include text and graphics to illustrate each event. Cite sources for graphics. Go to LifeGraph page for instructions. Due Tue Feb 5 by 9 pm.
Rubrics -- (Tue 3-4:30 group we will create rubric in class on Thur, Tue 6-9 group complete by Tue Feb 5)
Go to Rubrics page for more details.
Sign up for student presentations. Tue/Thur group, you will have two presentation opportunities, sign up once in the first half of the semester (before spring break) and a second time after spring break. Tue night group, you will have one presentation opportunity. The student presentations will be called "2 for 2". Each class meeting two students will have two minutes each to present an outstanding website, application, or technology idea to the class. You will be expected to stand in front of the class, use the teacher station to show your website, application or technology idea to the class and talk about it. What you share can be related to the topic of the day but does not need to be. It does need to be a fantastic site. One site on how to set up spelling lessons is good, two sites on this topic are not. Your presentation should last two minutes ONLY!!! Set up before class starts so all goes flawlessly. Know precisely what you want us to see and learn before you present. Show thought in your selection. Signup for your presentation dates on our class Google Spreadsheet. Before you present fill in the spreadsheet with your topic and web link so all can visit if they wish.
Review the week's topics by following the hyperlinks on this calendar.
Signup for a free wikispace wiki, select Education option, register as a Teacher, signup for a free account, make it public so we can see it. Last semester they started charging $1 for the accounts. They then added an option to call to verify your account. They gave a passcode to enter to verify the account and then you could change your permissions to Protected (everyone can view pages, but only members of this wiki can edit pages). This is all under the wiki permissions. The following instructions walk you through this process. The example isn't for a teacher but the process works the same. http://325tueseve.wikispaces.com/1-Create+Wiki
View resources on wikispace site to understand the power of wikis and their use in classrooms.
Find 2 articles/videos telling how teachers are using wikis/blogs/webpages in their classrooms, write a 2-3 sentence summary of each article/video, email article addresses and summaries to yourself for posting on your wiki once it is created. Come to class prepared to share your findings.
(second half of Tue night class, Thursday for 3-4:30 group) Review photo editing link below. Find 2 articles/videos telling how teachers are using photos and/or photoediting in their classrooms, write a 2-3 sentence summary of each article/video, email article addresses and summaries to yourself for posting on your wiki. Come to class prepared to share your findings.
Photo editing (Discuss uses of photo editing in classrooms, take photos using PhotoBooth, edit photos using Photoshop or Pixlr, make poster of photos using PPT, save PPT as a pdf, write comments on pdf's, post poster to wiki)
(extra) Check out Handy Tools page for a pdf creator for Windows machines AND for information on how to take a screen shot.
February 12/14
Before class (follow this process each class meeting):
Review the week's topics by following the hyperlinks on this calendar.
Create a wiki page for each topic.
On your wiki page describe what the topic is all about.
On your wiki page tell how teachers are using this topic in their classroom by summarizing two articles/videos and linking to those articles/videos.
Come to class prepared to share your findings.
In class:
2 for 2 presentations Screencasting (screencast-o-matic or screenr) Talking Graphics (Voki, Photobabble, Screen chomp, Voice Thread, Blabberize) QR Codes
February 19/21
2 for 2 presentations Assessment -- (1) Poll Everywhere, (2) Google forms Posters/Books-- Tagxedo, Wordle, Comic Life, Glogster
What's due by March 3? You should have the following completed:
Email telling me your estimation of your technology skill level. (Tue 3-4:30 group submit by Wed, January 30, at 9 am; Tue 6-9 group submit by Friday, February 1, at 9 am)
LifeGraph (due Tue Feb 5 at 9 pm)
Wiki created (homepage, welcome info, photo, QR Code)
On each page (except homepage) should be the following information:
name of page
tell what topic is all about (ie define/describe photos and photo editing)
links and summaries (2-3 sentences) to 2 articles/videos where social studies teachers talk about how they use that area in their classroom. (ie in my world history class students take photos of...)
in-class created samples (give a brief description of what you did, especially what resources you used)
resources including websites (hyperlinked), instruction sheets or video tutorials, resources for your future use, helpful hints
(a) lesson/activity where students use the technology, (b) student sample, (c) assessment rubric
What's due by April 2? You should have the following completed:
Slideshow page (linear slideshows using Open Office, Google, PPT, Prezi, and nonlinear ppt)
Movies page (Photobooth, YouTube, Photostory 3)
Mapping page (Google Maps, Google Earth)
Google Lit trip page
On each page should be the following information:
name of page
tell what topic is all about
links and summaries (2-3 sentences) to 2 articles/videos where social studies teachers talk about how they use that area in their classroom.
in-class created samples
resources including websites (hyperlinked), instruction sheets or video tutorials, resources for your future use, helpful hints
(a) lesson/activity where students use the technology, (b) student sample, (c) assessment rubric
Do you feel like you are spending a lot of time and not making much progress? That's okay! Sometimes it takes "stumbling around" to discover what you didn't know you wanted/needed to know. Read Jamie McKenzie's Stumbling Toward Insight for permission to "play." http://fno.org/summer2011/stumbling.html
Spring 2013
I will be attending a conference on January 29 so you will complete a variety of out-of-class assignments.
If you are in the Tue/Thur class, I will be back on the 31st. See you then.
Tue/Thur 3-4:30 Group (Elementary Language Arts Learning Community)
Tue 6-9 pm Group (Early Childhood)
Assignments for the week:
- Listen to Welcome
- View A Vision of K-12 Students Today -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
- View Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill
- View What do you want kids to do with technology (graphic)
- Read and consider your position as an adopter or disruptor -- From the Principal's Office: Adopting a Digital Disruptor Mindset to Transform Education -- “When people adopt technology, they do old things in new ways. When people internalize technology, they find new things to do.” James McQuivey, Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
- Read 24 Ed-Tech Terms You Should Know
- Review the remainder of this page, the Syllabus page (look at navigation on left), and the list of pages under Syllabus. Think about what you will be expected to demonstrate in this course. Be sure to think carefully about the Above and Beyond clause under evaluation. You are working for an A aren't you??? Is there too much to do? Probably! But, practice makes perfect and will provide you with a mental model of how technology is frequently working today. We will be exploring a wide variety of different tools that you may elect to use in your classroom. We will also be generating a large number of technology rich activities and supporting samples. Together these ideas are intended to unleash your creativity so that your classroom will meet your students' needs. Keep up with the daily schedule and you will be fine. Focus on developing plans and samples around one or two themes and that will reduce your stress. Develop plans and samples to mesh with your other courses and that will help reduce complexity, work and time commitments. You may work with one or more partners but the samples created must be done by you. Show your creativity!!
- Review the ISTE Technology Standards. Note there are standards for students as well as teachers. You, as a teacher, will be expected to demonstrate the teacher standards. You will then plan instruction so your students can demonstrate the student standards. Check out the NETS•S Profiles (PDF) to obtain a picture of what might be appropriate technology-wise for students at various age ranges. You might want to download and print a copy of these standards and profiles to keep with you for quick reference. You may also want to download the Common Core Standards or other content standards to which you will be planning instruction. All plans you write must identify which technology and content standards are addressed.
- iPads and Mobile Devices and Interactive Whiteboards are two of the hottest tool categories in today's classrooms. You are most likely carrying a mobile devise in your pocket (your smart phone). You may also have an iPad or tablet or a Google Chromebook or other devise with you or you may have one or more at home or in a classroom where you work. This is great! I am going to encourage you to use them this semester. The same goes for Interactive Whiteboards (SmartBoards). Unfortunately our classroom has none of this equipment :( So, you are going to have to push yourself to gain familiarity with them. To practice using a SmartBoard, go to Polk Library and reserve/use the SmartBoard room on the 3rd floor. It's there just for you!!! Check out the key at the circulation desk. To access an iPad talk to me, we have some in the college. I can check them out for a class period. Or, better yet, gain access to one that you can use over several days. You won't want to go to student teaching or a job interview without familiarity with these tools. It's up to you here... create instructional plans that incorporate their use.
- Write me an email telling me your estimation of your technology skill level. Talk about how you use technology in your life now as well as how you see it being used in your classroom by both you as a teacher as well as your students.Talk about what you already know how to do and what you need to learn. Use information from items 2-7 above to shape your discussion. Help me get to know you and your needs. Include a bit about yourself too so I can start to know you as an individual. Save this work also in a Google document on your Google Drive. Share the document with me as a link (set permissions so I can access the document) but also make sure the text is pasted into the body of your email. My email address is cramer@uwosh.edu (Tue 3-4:30 group submit by Wed, January 30, at 9 am; Tue 6-9 group submit by Friday, February 1, at 9 am)
- Don't know a lot about Google Drive? Check out this handout
- LifeGraphs -- Follow handout to create a lifegraph. Include a minimum of 5 important events in your life as they relate to language arts and/or teaching. Include text and graphics to illustrate each event. Cite sources for graphics. Go to LifeGraph page for instructions. Due Tue Feb 5 by 9 pm.
- Rubrics -- (Tue 3-4:30 group we will create rubric in class on Thur, Tue 6-9 group complete by Tue Feb 5)
- Sign up for student presentations. Tue/Thur group, you will have two presentation opportunities, sign up once in the first half of the semester (before spring break) and a second time after spring break. Tue night group, you will have one presentation opportunity. The student presentations will be called "2 for 2". Each class meeting two students will have two minutes each to present an outstanding website, application, or technology idea to the class. You will be expected to stand in front of the class, use the teacher station to show your website, application or technology idea to the class and talk about it. What you share can be related to the topic of the day but does not need to be. It does need to be a fantastic site. One site on how to set up spelling lessons is good, two sites on this topic are not. Your presentation should last two minutes ONLY!!! Set up before class starts so all goes flawlessly. Know precisely what you want us to see and learn before you present. Show thought in your selection. Signup for your presentation dates on our class Google Spreadsheet. Before you present fill in the spreadsheet with your topic and web link so all can visit if they wish.
- Poll Everywhere polls
>Spreadsheet with assignments listed.
Go to Rubrics page for more details.
What's your major?
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/LTE0MTY4MDM1OTI
http://325tueseve.wikispaces.com/1-Create+Wiki
http://325tueseve.wikispaces.com/
In class:
In class:
2 for 2 presentations
Screencasting (screencast-o-matic or screenr)
Talking Graphics (Voki, Photobabble, Screen chomp, Voice Thread, Blabberize)
QR Codes
Assessment -- (1) Poll Everywhere, (2) Google forms
Posters/Books-- Tagxedo, Wordle, Comic Life, Glogster
Podcasting (Audacity)
catch up
Due Date: All February assignments should be completed by March 3.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE
Slideshows - linear -- (1) Open Office, (2) Google, (3) PPT, (4) Prezi
Slideshows - nonlinear -- PPT
IT Portfolio (maybe)
Movies -- (1) Photobooth, (2) YouTube, (3) Photostory 3 (Windows only)
Mapping (Google Maps, Google Earth)
Google Tools (Google Lit Trips)
Due Date: All March assignments should be completed by April 2.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE
Communication Tools (Skype)
Learning Objects (web resources created by others)
Games
Visual representation of ideas with Concept Maps (Inspiration)
work time -- I'm anticipating attending a conference on April 11
Design Principles
Desktop Publishing
3-fold brochures
Family Newsletters
e-Safety
catch up/work time
Due Date: All course assignments due May 7 9 pm.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE
What's due by March 3? You should have the following completed:
Checklist of assignments:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE
What's due by April 2? You should have the following completed:
Do you feel like you are spending a lot of time and not making much progress? That's okay! Sometimes it takes "stumbling around" to discover what you didn't know you wanted/needed to know. Read Jamie McKenzie's Stumbling Toward Insight for permission to "play."
http://fno.org/summer2011/stumbling.html
Checklist of assignments:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE
What's due by May 7?
Everything!!
Checklist of assignments:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAPhFOaACT1dHJVdTJxRUFzMWhfMlgxbTd4LU1vTUE